From 045f205ba4710c4c633364a4e2e098483af936e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2021 13:21:04 -0700 Subject: bpo-45392: Update the docstring of the 'type' built-in (GH-29439) (GH-29452) (cherry picked from commit 91275207296c39e495fe118019a757c4ddefede8) Co-authored-by: Mark Dickinson --- .../next/Documentation/2021-11-06-10-54-17.bpo-45392.JZnVOz.rst | 2 ++ Objects/typeobject.c | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-11-06-10-54-17.bpo-45392.JZnVOz.rst diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-11-06-10-54-17.bpo-45392.JZnVOz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-11-06-10-54-17.bpo-45392.JZnVOz.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..09c1657 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-11-06-10-54-17.bpo-45392.JZnVOz.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Update the docstring of the :class:`type` built-in to remove a redundant +line and to mention keyword arguments for the constructor. diff --git a/Objects/typeobject.c b/Objects/typeobject.c index dc06cf0..02046e5 100644 --- a/Objects/typeobject.c +++ b/Objects/typeobject.c @@ -4221,10 +4221,8 @@ static PyMethodDef type_methods[] = { }; PyDoc_STRVAR(type_doc, -/* this text signature cannot be accurate yet. will fix. --larry */ -"type(object_or_name, bases, dict)\n" "type(object) -> the object's type\n" -"type(name, bases, dict) -> a new type"); +"type(name, bases, dict, **kwds) -> a new type"); static int type_traverse(PyTypeObject *type, visitproc visit, void *arg) -- cgit v0.12